4.11.2005

Earth Art....according to Metamorph

Is as the stage for conflict between art and architecture.
Is an image of our post industrial age, a conceptual model.
Is still of an untested potential.

Works such as the "Spiral Jetty", "Party Buried Woodshed", and "Double Negative" are all examples of Earth Art. Is there any instance of an Earth Architecture?
Constructivism + Cubism + Minimalism = architectural projects, not earth architecture

Harold Bloom: "The Anxiety of Influence": Earth Art serves architecture as influence.
Sola-Morales' essay on "Terrain Vague":
art seeks to protect and maintain VS architecture is to conquer and colonize terrain

Can Architecture articulate the passage of time without itself dissapearing!?
Does it EVOKE an image of the terrain?
ex: Herzog + Meuron's Schaulager in Basel, where the facade appears to be a compressed version of the surroundings.

Being open to..feelings of the place.
EARTH ART stands as a mirror image of the fragile nature of architecture.

THE POWER TIME HAS ON ARCHITECTURE.